On Sun, 11 May 2008 07:32:34 -0700, Stray Dog wrote:
> On May 11, 12:25 am, The Trucker <mik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 01:21:15 +0000, Jeff Strickland wrote:
>>
>> > "Stray Dog" <straydog2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>news:02cb8ae6-2257-4468-80c9-c3713b0ae75d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> (BPOking's post is quoted in full at the end of my
>
> deleted
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>> > They're Democrats, and Democrats need a faltering economy to win in
>> > November. They call it good bad news.
>>
>> > Bad good news is when the WSJ reports an up month in April, or lower
than
>> > expected job losses, or that the economic troubles are actually
caused by
>> > policy matters elsewhere in the world. That is all good news for
America,
>> > but bad news for Democrats.
>>
>> Republican economic ideology was and is hopelessly flawed. But they
>> really do believe that economics does not matter. There are 3 things
that
>> are important to Republicans: Authority, authority, and authority.
>
> Well, my big notion about the Republicans is that: i) they consider
> DoE, DoD government spending is really not government spending (or, in
> other words, those are sacred cows) and all other government spending
> needs to be cut to zero (except the paychecks for Republicans
> politicians), and ii) all we need to do is make rich people happy
> (i.e. richer) and everything else will sort itself out (with or
> without trickle-down, preferably without).
>
> (pardon my slight bias)
That seems a reasonably correct assessment. However: It only takes a
modicum of knowledge concerning economies of scale to totally refute that
position. The real claim is that government is inherently less efficient
than is the private sector. This may even be true (probably is true) in
the current government. Many of us, and probably most of us, see it
really as a problem of transparency and accountability. Large
organizations all tend to be less transparent. The private firms are
even less transparent than government but government is currently less
accountable. The proper thing to do is to make government more
accountable by improving the representative nature at the bottom -- in the
House of Representatives.
"A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has
his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person,
which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small
township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him
at short periods." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
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of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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